Microsoft is going after the female Windows Phone owners market with its latest app, MSN Onpoint. It's aimed at "busy" women: "We've handpicked stories & videos from leading magazines and websites so you don't have to. We throw in the occasional eye candy and racy joke because, well, you deserve it..."Windows Phone

People are already using their smartphones to take photos of old printed photos, to preserve the images and share them on sites like Facebook. Shoebox is an app that aims to make the process easier, scanning photos and uploading them to the 1000memories community, as well as pushing them to Facebook and Twitter if desired.iPhone

An iPad app for Halo? Calm down, it's not the game itself, sadly. Instead, Future's Official Xbox Magazine has put together a celebration of Microsoft's action franchise, including coverage from old issues of the magazine and interviews with Halo's creators.iPad

Audio service SoundCloud already has excellent iPhone and Android apps, but now it has updated the former with a native iPad version too. The features remain the same: record and share audio, but it makes good use of the larger screen with tactile waveforms and more room for social features.iPad

Nokia's new location app is out in beta, and called Nokia Pulse. The company is pitching it as an easy way to add your location to any conversation: "as instant, private, and simple as sending a text, but far more useful and engaging".Windows Phone / Symbian

Alice Cooper is back, Back, BACK! And he has an iPhone app to go with his new album that gets fans to air-drum and air-guitar along to some of the tracks, while also remixing them and challenging friends to out-do their efforts on Facebook and Twitter.iPhone

Loopseque Kids is the work of music developer Casual Underground: an iPad app that aims to be "the first step into magical world of music and adventures" for children. That means learning rhythms and melodies through a colourful circular interface.iPad

Parliament Week is a new scheme that aims to get the British public more interested in its political workings. This iPad app is part of the effort, with Parliament Week, History of Parliament and Artfinder teaming up to present more than 50 Westminster-related artworks by artists including Monet, Turner and Gainsborough.iPad

Little Fear is apparently a "byook". What's that? According to the company behind it, it's "The successful union of books and movies. A byook stages fascinating stories by incorporating images, animations and sound effects". In this case, the content is a short story inspired by Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe.iPhone

"It's a book. It's a game. It's an RPG. It's a Gamebook Adventure!" explains the excitable App Store listing for this, a book-app inspired by the heyday of Fighting Fantasy print books. It's the work of Tin Man Games and author Jonathan Green, who has worked on a range of sci-fi titles in his time including Doctor Who, Star Wars Clone Wars and Warhamer 40k.iPhone / iPad

Another photo-sharing app for iPhone? Batch makes its simplicity its reason for downloading. The aim being to share batches of photos with friends who have the app or wider contacts on Facebook and Twitter, with real-time features included.iPhone

Nothing to do with the record label of the same name, this is a music discovery app for iOS that presents songs and albums as cover-art thumbnails, while serving up similar songs as preview clips, which can then be purchased.iPhone / iPad

The latest quirky branded app comes from watch-maker Swatch. Its Snap Dance app involves recording six short dance moves, and then combining them together. An animated gif for the apps era! Sort of.iPhone